Search This Blog

Pet Art: Yorkie Puppy

Teacup Yorkie puppyMy friend Juan recently got a teacup Yorkie puppy that he's named Charlie. As you can see, Charlie is an absolute heart-breaker and totally adorable, and I'm having lots of fun taking his photo and turning his puppy pictures into art.

Here are some that I've done so far in my Pet Art portfolio over at Imagekind.

Did you know that I can photograph your pets and kids for you too and turn them into works of art like this?

Print them, frame them, or turn them into greeting cards and postcards. Or if you already have photos you want me to transform for you, just send me your best pictures you have and I'll do some magic with them for you.

The "photoshopping" is free, but you must make a commitment to purchase a print or greeting card of the photo(s) from Imagekind. 8x10 prints start from $28.47. Greeting cards cost as little as $2.86 each when purchased in quantities of 24 cards.

Shop for wall art at my Imagekind store.

Subscribe by email Your subscription will begin only after you activate it by responding to the email you will receive from "FeedBurner Email Subscriptions" immediately after submitting this request. If you do not see the email within the next minute, please check your spam folder.

Comments

Samoan Youth

This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .

A Grunge Botanical Collection — Five Painterly Garden Pieces

Over the past few weeks I've been building out a small collection of botanical pieces using photos taken in my garden here in Irvine, California, (and in one case out on a hiking trail here in SoCal), and using AI assistance to give each one a grunge, painterly treatment — dark, richly textured backgrounds with warm gold light breaking through, turning garden snapshots and trailside finds into something closer to old varnished still-life paintings than straight photography. Here's the full set so far. Epiphyllum oxypetalum — Queen of the Night, Painterly Botanical Art A night-blooming cactus that flowers just once or twice a year, for a single night — three blooms at different stages caught in one frame from a night it happened in my garden. Kangaroo Paw — Painterly Grunge Botanical Art Australia's velvety-flowered native, grown in my own garden, its stems reaching in different directions the way it actually grows rather than posed into symmetry. ...

A Steindachner's Ebony Tarantula at Crystal Cove

I crossed paths with this fellow on a hike at Crystal Cove State Park this morning, along the Fenceline trail. I posted it to iNaturalist as soon as I got home, and within a few hours had it confirmed by several people: a male Steindachner's ebony tarantula ( Aphonopelma steindachneri ). Turns out the timing wasn't a fluke. Males of this species leave their burrows specifically to search for mates between July and October, so this was a textbook-timed encounter rather than an unusual one — good to actually check that before assuming, since my first instinct was that a July sighting seemed early. After his photo session, I gently nudged him with a stick and he scurried off the trail into the chaparral, safe from being run over by a mountain biker or stomped by an arachnophobic hiker.  Aphonopelma steindachneri is native to the coastal ranges of Southern California and northern Baja California, and it's one of the tarantulas you're genuinely most likely to run into ...